Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools
Subtitle: a methodology
By: Veerle Rots
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9789058678010
Subjects: Archéologie; Outils préhistoriques; Préhistoire; Analysis; Methodology; Stone implements; Méthodologie; Archaeology
Description: "The capacity to mount stone tools in or on a handle is considered an important innovation in past human behaviour. The insight to assemble two different materials (organic and inorganic) into a better functioning entity indicates the presence of the required mental capacity and technological expertise. Although the identification of stone tool use based on microscopic analysis was introduced in the 1960s, distinguishing between hand-held and hafted tool use has remained a more difficult issue. This volume introduces a methodology, based on a systematic, in-depth study of prehension and hafting traces on experimental stone artefacts, which allows their recognition in archaeological assemblages"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. [227]-238).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Research methodology; title: Prehension and hafting traces: dreams or reality?; title: Prehension traces - dominant variable: material worked; title: Hafting traces - dominant variables I: use motion and material worked; title: Hafting traces - dominant variables II: hafting material and hafting arrangement; title: Hafting traces-secondary variables; title: Indirect evidence of hafting; title: Blind test; title: Discussion; title: General conclusions.